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Anti-Hezbollah Shiite activist Lokman Slim was shot dead in the southern town of al-Addousiyeh with 4 bullets in his head and one in his back.
President Michel Aoun and Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Thursday called for investigations to unveil the circumstances of the assassination of anti-Hezbollah Shiite activist Lokman Slim who was shot dead in the southern town of al-Addousiyeh with 4 bullets in his head and one in his back
Aoun asked State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat to speed up the investigation” to identify the sides that carried out the murder.”
While Diab asked caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi to order security agencies to conduct prompt investigations in order to “unveil the circumstances, pursue the culprits, arrest them and refer them to the judiciary as soon as possible.”
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Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri walks with caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab walks towards the government palace in Beirut. (Reuters) Beirut - Mohammed Shukair Sources close to the former prime ministers welcomed religious and political leaders’ endeavor to spare Lebanon sectarian and confessional tension, as a result of the organized campaign led by former Minister Gebran Bassil to hamper the formation of a new government.
The sources affirmed that the former premiers have imposed a “political siege” against the former minister, who was “betting on his ability to evoke sectarian alignment to regain his role on the political arena.”
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